Each weekday morning, BDL serves up a handful of NBA-related stories to digest with your gazpacho.

Bob Kravitz, The Indy Star: "This is what a leader does — what Danny Granger didn't bother to do — after Tuesday night's miserable effort against the Nuggets, the Pacers' third straight poor performance of this young season. A leader, the guy with the big contract, the face of the franchise, he sticks around after a lousy game and does his best to explain what just happened. It doesn't matter if he doesn't have any answers for a 111-93 loss. We asked T.J. Ford, who stuck around like (almost) everybody else, to explain what happened and he said this: 'I don't know,' he said, shrugging, shaking his head. 'I don't know.' Pause. 'I don't know.' Pause. 'I don't know.' Pause. 'Pfffffft ... I don't know.' At least Ford was there. At least Granger's teammates were there, answering questions, trying to make sense of how an offensively gifted team has become bad and boring these first three games. And where was Granger? By the time the media arrived, he was gone, his locker clean and empty. Can anybody imagine if Peyton Manning flew the coop after a painful Colts loss?"

Frank Dell'Apa, The Boston Globe: "The NBA office has not made a determination regarding an inquiry into a conflict between New Orleans guard Chris Paul and the Celtics' Rajon Rondo Sunday night. A double technical foul was assessed to Paul and Rondo after they tangled in the second quarter of the Celtics' 97-87 win over the Hornets. After the game, Paul and Rondo argued near the Celtics bench and were separated by team security. Celtics coach Doc Rivers and Rondo said the league has not contacted them. 'I have no comment on it, really,' Rondo said after last night's 105-74 win over Philadelphia. 'They've got to do what they've got to do.' Said Rivers, 'I don't expect anything to come of it.'"

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Sacramento Kings' swingman Francisco Garcia underwent a successful three-hour surgery over the weekend to repair a fractured forearm and ligament damage to his wrist.

The fifth-year veteran injured himself when the exercise ball he was using to work out popped before team practice on Friday.

No, seriously.

Boom goes the physioball!

Before the injury occurred, the 195-pound Garcia was lying on his back doing dumbbell presses with 90-pound weights in each hand, according to teammates.

Kings spokesman Darrin May said Garcia will spend eight weeks in a cast and is expected to miss at least four months of action. The would-have-been starting small forward averaged 12.7 points, 3.4 rebounds and 2.3 assists last season.

But back to the culprit: Sam Amick of The Sacramento Bee reports that the exercise balls have been removed from the weight room, "with no word yet whether a sacrificial burning of the rubber menaces is yet to come."

An unlucky break? Definitely. But let's try and look at the brighter side of things. Like it or not, injuries happen in sports, and while 'Cisco's is no laughing matter, occasionally, something happens to an athlete that's so strange, so out of the ordinary it's, well, tough not to laugh.

So with that said, here's a list of some of the wackiest NBA player injuries I could remember:

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